The Goldsmiths Prize presents Kate Briggs in conversation

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Date

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Time

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Costs

FREE

Location

Room 137A, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldmsiths, University of London

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Award-winning translator and novelist Kate Briggs in conversation with writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson.

Join award winning translator and novelist, Kate Briggs, who will read from and discuss her work. Kate will be in conversation with writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson.

Kate Briggs is the translator of Hélène Bessette’s Lili is Crying, and Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes, and the author of This Little Art and The Long Form, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2023.

Presented for Deptford Literature Festival by the Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman.

Kate Briggs photo credit: (C) Chloe Briggs

About Deptford Literature Festival

Deptford Literature Festival takes place each March and celebrates the diversity and creativity of Deptford and Lewisham through words, stories and performance. It is run by London Writers Centre in a collaboration with independent producer Tom MacAndrew, with support from the Albany, Deptford Lounge and Lewisham Libraries. The festival is part of our campaign to make Lewisham the UK’s first Borough of Literature. You can find out more about Deptford Literature Festival and see the full festival programme at: deptfordlitfest.com

Artists

Kate Briggs

Kate Briggs

Kate Briggs lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project ‘Short Pieces That Move’. She is the translator of Hélène Bessette’s Lili is Crying (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025), and two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together. She is the author of a genre-bending essay on the art of translation, This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) and a novel, The Long Form (Fitzcarraldo Edtions), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2023.

Photo credit: (C) Chloe Briggs
Jennifer Hodgson

Jennifer Hodgson

Jennifer Hodgson was born and grew up in East Hull and now lives on a hill in South East London. Once an academic, she now writes and teaches at the edges of biography, memoir and archival practice, drawn to lives and works that resist straightforward telling. She edited Ann Quin’s The Unmapped Country (And Other Stories) and is currently at work on a new non-fiction book inspired by her long entanglement with Quin’s life and work.

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